Dr. William H. Fitzgerald is known as the founder of modern reflexology, despite a lot of and different schools foot reflexology are existing today.
He was born in 1872 in the USA (Middletown), he obtained a degree in Medicine from the Vermont University in 1895. He also studied in Vienna, Paris and London where he joined the Central London Ears, Nose and Throat Hospital for two years.
He worked as physician at the Boston City Hospital and as a laryngologist at the St. Francio Hospital in Hartford, in Connecticut. He died in Stamford in 1942. Since 1902 he has studied and tested the so-called “Zone-Therapy”, now known as reflexology or foot reflexotherapy, working on the patients’ hands and feet by pressing on different parts of fingers in order to ease pain all over the body.